L.A. set to celebrate Israel, Jewish community

Published on April 18, 2013

This year’s Celebrate Israel Independence Day festival will feature plenty of stars when it takes place on April 21, but only one has plans to actually spend time in outer space.

Israeli Leadership Council changes name

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 13, 2013

When the chief executive officer of the Israeli Leadership Council announced at the group’s March 10 gala that the nonprofit’s name is changing to the Israeli American Council (IAC), the reaction from the 900 people in attendance was modest. As animations of the group’s new logo flashed on screens around the Beverly Hilton ballroom, polite applause briefly drowned out the clink of silverware against plates.

Israeli-Americans make good on giving back

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on May 9, 2012

On May 6, instead of sleeping late and spending the Sunday morning at home, Vered Nagar shlepped her son and daughter from Tarzana to the boardwalk at Venice Beach to help the homeless.

Sagi Balasha: the new head of the Israeli Leadership Council

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 25, 2012

To help explain what it’s like to be the CEO of the Israeli Leadership Council (ILC), Sagi Balasha, who took on the role in September 2011, offers a comparison to his previous job at Beit Hatfutsot, a small museum in Tel Aviv (once known as The Diaspora Museum, now The Museum of the Jewish People), where he was vice president of finance and development.

MK Einat Wilf outlines new Israeli contract with the Jewish world

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 12, 2011

Young professionals learn tools for Israel advocacy

By Orit Arfa
Published on August 17, 2011

BINA LA, the young leadership division of the Israeli Leadership Council, which seeks to develop community among Jewish American and Israeli professionals through intellectual salons, celebrated its first anniversary with the first Israel Advocacy Conference, held at The Mark in Pico-Robertson on Aug. 14.

Young leaders get the lowdown in 10-minute talks

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 15, 2011

As he took the stage on Feb. 23, Mark Rothman, executive director of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, had just one question.